Charlie Cogbill has spent a large part of his career studying a forest that no longer exists: the pre-settlement forest in New England and New York. A plant ecologist, Cogbill began this work while he…

In February 2005, the identification of a European woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, that had been caught in an insect monitoring trap the previous September in Fulton, New York, near Lake Ontario, quickly…

Hank Rope knows five streams in the Catskills region of New York state intimately. He knows when hundreds of insects hatch, when they swim to the surface, and whether they make a splash when they…

For holding soil in place along the upper banks of streams, it would be hard to improve upon red osier dogwood – though there are other dogwood species and many willows that also perform that…

Photo by Ned Therrien David and C.C. take a break from putting up wood.I remember several years ago asking David White where he lived and maybe something about what he did for a living.…

Fifteen cords a winter. I’d thought it was more like 10 but my mother informs me otherwise and although she’s 80 she’s not only still sharp as a sawtooth but has much better reasons…

I have been a Tree Farm Inspector for 27 years. I’ve been a New Hampshire Licensed Forester since 1991 and am involved with the Forest Guild. My comments reflect a long history of involvement…

If you’ve ever walked in your woods with a logger or a forester, I bet you’ve heard some version of this speech: “You should think of your forest as a garden. The trees are like your…

I serve on Northern Woodlands’ Board of Directors, and the reason is quite simple. I fully embrace the mission of the organization: “To encourage a culture of forest stewardship in the…

We don’t want to shock the tourists, but the spring woods do bring some color beyond green. While spring displays of herbaceous plants flowering on the forest floor are a treat, there is much…

There you are, leaning against a big maple in your sugarbush, drill and tap at the ready, when you think, “Wait a minute…is this a red maple or a sugar maple?” While maples in…

My first reaction to the title of this book was to question how a distinguished scholar of conservation history could link “war” with an examination of forestry in America. Sam Hays began…

Anyone who’s keeps an almanac or “kitchen book” to record nature’s comings and goings in their backyard is following in the footsteps of Aldo Leopold. He said that those who…

As chronic wasting disease hovers at our doorstep, recent discoveries about how this disease spreads – and the parts of the deer it affects – should raise our collective alert level to…

The Winooski River runs in a generally northwesterly direction through northern Vermont, connecting, among other towns, Montpelier, the state capitol, with Burlington, the state’s largest city,…

The prices reported here are those that log buyers—mostly sawmills and wholesalers—are paying for logs. Because these are prices paid for delivered wood, landowners need to adjust the…

I’ve always been grateful that, in the great melding and merging of tongues that produced our beloved English language, we came out of it all with “tree” as the word we use for a…

My car is coated in long smears of salt. If I brush the car door, I’m left with a large, white, and somewhat tasty smudge on my clothes. While I’m always pleased to get home on winter…

In the spring of 1984, I spent many days in a study carrel on the seventh floor of Baker Library at Dartmouth College while writing Pond and Brook. One day, I walked past nearby Occom Pond and was…

If you take a close look at New Hampshire’s Mount Moosilauke, or the high peaks of the Franconia and Presidential Ranges, you can see gray bands of dead balsam fir trees within the green swath…